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June 28, 2014
- November 02, 2014

Tim de Christopher’sThe Fruit of our Labors will be on view in deCordova’s The Square gallery beginning Saturday,
June 28. De Christopher works in the tradition of stone carving,
creating large-scale narrative sculpture and installations. Previously
installed at Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts, his
continually evolving work The Fruit of Our Labors explores the labors of
man over the course of a lifetime.

The new iteration of this installation at deCordova is a large,
timber-framed structure containing carved stone sculptures and weathered
found objects. Evocative of an ancient Greek temple, the structure acts
as a monument: its items metaphorically pay tribute to a life lived,
representing ideas that are both deeply personal and universally
experienced. De Christopher calls the work “in part an autobiographical
narrative… it is about our legacies as well as our experiences through
life.”

The Fruit of Our Labors was previously installed at the
Oxbow Gallery, in Northampton, MA in December of 2010 and a new
iteration of the project will be installed at deCordova in The Square
from June 28 through November 2, 2014.